Key accounts manager for Merck
The key accounts manager for an international science and technology firm juggles a demanding job with honing the talents of her once challenging KWPN mount
My job…
I work for Merck, an international science and technology company. I'm a key accounts manager and look after the major accounts in the Cambridge and Norwich area. I sell exclusively into academic and government funded research organisations. My customers range from researchers to PhD students, stores workers and professors. We have a large and diverse portfolio at Merck and so what I sell changes on a daily basis. Sometimes it will be culture media to help cells grow, or fragments of synthetic DNA called oligonucleotides, while at other times it will be larger scale items such centrifuges. I enjoy being on the road a few days a week and getting out in